Not as efficient (June 26 Part 2) Preparing for honey flow

[@BugFarmerBees]

Please post more videos. You are one of the best beekeepers on KZbin as far as I'm concerned.

[@FlakeyPM]

I just found this channel and I'm wondering what happened to Devan.

[@shadwells460]

Devan, are you ok? No vids in awhile. Hope all is well.

[@buddybee9288]

I am missing your very well made and instructive video of how you manage your bee in your climate ,hope you keep sharing your knowledge Thank again for your hard work .Pierre

[@SurlyPlatypus]

Outstanding mic sound and video Devan. Thank you for all the attention and work on your videos. Such valuable information as this pair of colonies progress through a season. Awesome.

[@christymcdonald7887]

Great to see someone so young with a lot of knowledge willing to share it. As we say in my part of the world Hats Off To You and greetings for Ireland

[@bradkkimberlin2000]

Good morning haven't seen any updates with hive checks you are one of three I watch and learn from thank you for you're time and efforts best BK

[@ronbaba6258]

Devan whats up sir hav'nt heard from iare seen awhile

[@chrisbgarrett]

Really like your videos and your perspective on single brood box beekeeping. Keep up the videos!

[@toddachten2224]

I am looking forward to the progression of when and how you get them back to making their stores up and preparing for winter.

[@blakedhoffman]

Looking forward to your next videos. Thanks for all the great information. Please keep us up to date on the hive weights and your harvesting plans or progress. Thanks again

[@gardankoi]

where is Devan Rawn?

[@Westernwilson]

In Ontario.

[@r.r.s4812]

Please post more videos. I learned a ton of good info off your videos. You have a great way of communicating your knowledge. Thx

[@leamiller633]

At the end of your inspections you look like you are opening a queen cell and putting a queen in. Do you capture your queen during your inspections and then release her at the end?

[@shawnandsam1]

Missing your videos dude really want to know how the scale bees did :-(

[@nadhir0369]

I love your vids. Just finished watching all of them. I'm looking forward to what else you will teach. I was also wondering how you secure your hives against vandalism or theft ?

[@kevimc]

this reminds me of Brother Adam's Buckfast bees of the university of Guelph stock; they are way too calm to bee haha from any other genetics; what a joy to be able to work with low swarming tendency, good honey producing and gentle stock, you are blessed

[@BeeToZFL]

Hello from Florida. Always great to watch your videos. I was getting worried for a bit not see a new video from you in a couple weeks, but understand life gets in the way. Keep up the great work and look forward on watching your next videos.

[@AmerijamAcres]

Hope you do this again this year. Just found your channel but noticed you haven’t posted anything in a while. Hope you come back soon.

[@bsdoweidt]

Devan, will you be making more videos. I don't even have bees yet but your videos are so helpful and enjoyable to watch. Are you in the States now? I thought I saw your name on a New York bee association.

[@MrWoof13]

Do you leave one box of honey for the bees the use over the winter? And, is that with just the one brood box? Thanks in advance.

[@edgobb]

Oh no, it's been two months since we've heard anything! We miss you!!!! (and those bees)

[@sharonriley948]

Fascinating video. Wish every colony were as good as the yellow one. Rick in Pa.

[@sharonriley948]

Devan, it looked as if you had a queen cage covered with bees at the point you added the empty drawn out frame. Did you requeen? I watched 3 times and you didn't say you had. But it looked as if you tucked a q. cage in between the frames. Thanks Rick in Pa.

[@emilymcbroom2552]

He cages the queen while he completes the inspection of the brood chamber. This way he can safely shake bees off each frame for a closer inspection.

[@PhillipHall01]

I have really enjoied your videos. Hopeing you will make more. Best to you and God Bless You... Sincerely, Phillip Hall

[@_BJ123]

Cant wait for you to post another new video, how about what you do now when the death is going on. And where u stand on your honey supers. Love ur videos, good job. Watching from Indiana, USA

[@johnagar5524]

Hi mate just wondering if you were going to do any more videos 😁

[@japace1]

Hi Devan, thanks for nice series :) I have a suggestion, it would be a nice experiment if you would compare two hives one in one brood box method, second in two brood box setup, and that way you could show that not only one box is enough for bees, but that way bees consume less honey, thus producing more :)

[@johngury]

He leaves those vintage platform scales out in the apiary?

[@yurijholowinsky4308]

Devan - thank you for taking the time to post these informative videos. Question - your yellow hive appears to have a one inch round hole at the handle of the brood chamber. Could you please comment why and would additional entrance holes be useful? Thanks.

[@lamairepr]

Devan, I have 3 hives now it’s my first year. I have already put a second deep brood and medium honey super on the NUC I bought. My 2 packages are not still single brood, and I think I would like to give it single brood management a go, they’ve been in the box 4 weeks and they’re covering about 6 frames, other than watching for swarm cells, I should have boxes ready for a NUC from the packages as they grow. Then add some honey supers once the packages fill about 8-9 frames not sure what or if there is magic number to add honey supers. Thanks for any help, love the videos....keep em coming!

[@richardbuchmann536]

Devan, what are you thoughts on the Flow Hives ? I'm located in southern Wisconsin and have 2 of them and I'm a first year beekeeper. I am doing the 1 brood box with each and so far it working out great! The first problem I had was the end of June they were filling the flow frames great, but had so many bees in the hive that i added a super on top of each hive to give them space. Hive 1 is picture perfect , very efficient use of the brood box and flow frames are almost all capped to the outside with honey and filling the super above now. Hive 2 has more bees, but were filling the brood box more with nectar , pollen and honey. My plan is after extracting the honey from the flow frames ,remove them and the queen excluder and put top super on the brood box and leave it that way for the winter. Any advice or input would be greatly appreciated. Rick

[@jameskownacki8639]

Devin hope your ok ...missing your next video...its been to long since your last video

[@lyndonhadden72]

Hey mate, really enjoying your video's. Very informative. Winter here in NZ so good to get some tips for the season to come. I also run single brood chambers and am moving towards 3/4 honey supers. Just means the weight of moving them is lower than the full depth. Cheers.

[@tylerbristol1]

Will you continue to check for swarm cell through out the summer? Or do they get to a point where you can be reasonably sure they will not swarm?

[@jasonwashburn8886]

Where did you get the hive belt

[@danieljohns2302]

Missing your videos mate! Hope you are well? Dan, Australia

[@tonyhash1174]

Hi Devan. Love your videos. Why are you only running nine frames in your boxes?

[@PaulDrummer1]

amazing videos. just a few questions. For the the brood chamber you use a different size brood super compared to the honey supers, would it not be more efficient having all of them the same size? Also how do you not squish the bees when putting back the brood frames? :)

[@codybutler8718]

Devan, I am still waiting for a video on you: How you came to be where you are now? Did you grow up keeping bees? Where and what you took in school? Guelph? Past and current jobs? OBA tech transfer? How may hives you started with? Size of your operation and aspersions to be? Is this your full time gig? Job in the winter? Etc!? I have a feeling your not one to brag but it’s not bragging if ppl are asking for it!

[@DevanRawn]

Not so much an issue with bragging, but how much of my life do I want to share on the internet. Undecided. But maybe some day.

[@pamelawannamaker242]

Yes Devan what happened for you to stop posting this season? Hope everything is well

[@mccfish]

I’ve heard with a queen excluder on the bees will not draw out comb above it. Is this your experience??

[@goodoleboy11668]

where are you located? My hives are not building up that fast. Most likely because they need to draw out a lot of frames with foundation.

[@PhillipHall01]

This is a great series and a good way to teach. Thank You 😊

[@georgina979]

We miss you, hope you are well.

[@1FishinAddict]

Followed your single brood method and my queen swarmed. So back to two brood boxes. It isn’t for everyone.

[@calumgrigor9547]

Judging by the brood pattern looks like if they have cells they may be supercedure cells?

[@evaphid]

Hey Devan, what method of preservation do you use for your empty combs from the previous harvest?

[@michaelrobinson1341]

Hi Devan, thanks again for posting, I'm finding this series very informative. So, while there is one clear winner between these hives, they both seem comparable to me, I take the fact you are treating them pretty much identically as evidence to this (I do recall that was the second frame you removed from this hive's brood chamber). Is this typical this time of year? Are you expecting to see these hives diverge as conditions become less than ideal, as the season progresses?

[@branchbrookfarm]

Devan, I haven’t seen any new video for some time now. I hope all is well??

[@troypierce3967]

What is your plan to rectify the efficiency problem here? Requeen? Or just let them be to do their thing?

[@DevanRawn]

For now, I'll let them do their thing. I'm hoping to see that new frame get laid with a nice solid brood pattern. If this hive continues to go south after our main honey flow, then I will seriously consider requeening it. I don't really want to do that though, for the sake of this little case study.

[@philjanikjr9805]

Questions; I thought I noticed your inner cover entrance facing back of hive, is this for ventilation, not a top entrance? Do you ventilate hive any other way besides full open entrance? How about in extreme heat? Thanks for your time!!

[@jpmako]

Everything Good Dapper Dan?

[@brucecampo3380]

Hey Devan - great info from your videos. Really appreciate you taking the time to do them. I tried a single brood chamber(3 of them) this year and it has been incredibly successful and so much easier to manage. Thank you! Given this is my first year managing with single brood chamber (with multiple honey supers filled), I'm wondering how you manage the hive space when you pull the honey supers off for processing? Essentially, you've got a hive filled with bees in the deep and honey supers and now you've cut the hive size down significantly. Is this something you worry about or manage? I'm not ready to pull the honey supers off but trying to stay ahead of the process and manage my hives. Thanks Devan (oh yea, cool video from the cave... nice work)

[@cutlerbm]

bruce campo I was wondering about this also

[@alphaxanon]

Devan Rawn infrequently posts some nice bee pictures on Instagram @devan.beekeeper

[@bost3119]

U should give them 2 bottom boxes so u no for sure they wont want to swarm cuz they no they have a ton of space to make more bees...

[@bost3119]

Im not a bee person by any means lol i swell if stung and try to figure a way to keep them from me but i love watching shows like these i have like ten or more others i watch on here its very interesting specialy to see the huge hive ones i learn so much tho im deathly fear bees have sents i was a kid guess from being stung by tons at a time... lol ur shows are great ty for making them keep it up would love to see more of the hives on the yrd in the shows dont get me wrong the scale ones are interesting but more is always better

[@michaeladamson3360]

Robin Bost Check out the single brood management video of Devan.

[@muratgokirmak6132]

Try different way when honey flow start take swarm manual. 2-4-7-9 (2-9 honey with pollen) (4-7 open eggs with bees) put small hive 5 day later cut closet queens don't touch open queens store candy's check out 30 day.. you are taking honey eater. 2 or 3 times repeat it. You need 4 ready honeycombs each swarm. 4 swam ×3 honeycombs = 12 honeycombs. Take double honey.😎

[@muratgokirmak8398]

Where is superb beekeeper?

[@smokeydabeecharlescoleman8365]

Where are you located ?

[@jeffquillin3566]

What do you use for smoker fuel?

[@MathijsHerremans]

Nice video's! Do you work With a specific bee race?

[@stephensmith1877]

Devan, you good?

[@lenframe]

How come you haven't made any videos this year?

[@DmitriyRomanov]

Hey. what country do you live in?

[@DevanRawn]

Canada

[@mikedarkow7788]

are you not doing bees. i learned a lot from you

[@jcs6347]

Hi, good video! Do you have a video on how you rob? thanks!

[@cricketscorner6514]

Where applying your single brood tactics and we're located in the very hot and humid L.A lower Alabama and and was able to pull two nucs within a month off of strong Hive we do have a weak hive thinking about leaving her alone , slow out of the gate.

[@naixus]

3 weeks, no update?

[@hendrikdegroot8556]

Are you using black plastic foundation? When yes - Do you have a adres for me where I can buy it? I live in the Netherlands.

[@johnneumann9902]

where are you???????? hello???????? no new vids??????

[@kerrythompson2838]

Devan please make new video they are very informative. If you just don't want to do them anymore thats ok but please let your subscribers no if you are ok or just don't have the time to do them. Cheers

[@flatwoodsbeefarm1015]

Devan did you mess around and get married??? That would explain you not having time to do videos...

[@bradkkimberlin2000]

what,s the latest & greatest ? Have you gone to ground LOL !

[@riccardoproserpi9806]

What about The next video?

[@ronbaba6258]

Devaan whaa gwaan

[@xshanghu]

Great

[@billchriswell2925]

Dang nothing new in forever

[@leviscarbrough6993]

Hey man do you have a Facebook ?

[@dewtouchgoldhoneyamarcolds4816]

Good

[@gajendarsingh2365]

I'm Indian sporet sir English nhi aati me aapko sasi vidio dikhtA hao